Alec Baldwin may be getting a weekly talk show on MSNBC

Alec Baldwin, who has been an outspoken left-wing advocate for years, may get a weekly talk show on MSNBC.

Alec Baldwin, who has been an outspoken left-wing advocate for years, may get a weekly talk show on MSNBC. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Scott Collins

MSNBC's lineup may be getting some serious firepower: Looks like Alec Baldwin is signing up to host a show on the cable news network.

Baldwin, the 55-year-old former costar of NBC's sitcom "30 Rock," would bring his famously liberal point of view to a show that would air at 10 p.m. Fridays, according to the site Mediaite, which broke the story.

A talent representative said a deal is believed to already have been signed, but an MSNBC spokeswoman declined to confirm that or comment on the Mediaite report.

Baldwin would be a choice almost guaranteed to hearten liberals as much as it would irk conservatives. The actor has been an outspoken left-wing advocate for years, making him a favorite of Democratic viewers.

Earlier this year, however, he was attacked for calling a British reporter "a toxic little queen." Many observers, including CNN's openly gay Anderson Cooper, said that a conservative who said the same thing would have been viewed as homophobic, but that Baldwin got a free pass because of his politics.

What's certain is that Baldwin knows how to make news, intentionally or not. In 2007, he made international headlines when he left a voice message berating his then-11-year-old daughter as a "rude, thoughtless little pig." He later apologized.